Neighborhoods in the 17740 ZIP Code

Bastress was formed in the 1850s after German farmers immigrated to the mountainous area of North Central Pennsylvania, and the township is still dotted with farms and orchards bearing names like “Steinbacher” and “Eck.” One of the first buildings erected was Immaculate Conception Church, a Catholic parish that has stood since 1860. The building

For 250 years, Anthony Township, Pennsylvania, has been just beyond the edge of local development. In the 1760s, English law banned Colonial settlement west of Lycoming Creek. However, dozens of Scotch-Irish, English and German farmers ignored this order and pushed westward into the mountainous frontier, a chunk of which now makes up Anthony

Located in the Nippenose Valley, Limestone is a rural Lycoming County township primarily composed of farmland overlooking the Appalachian Mountains. "Limestone is predominantly Amish, and they own quite a few farms in the valley," says Jeanne Engel, secretary of Limestone Township and a resident for 70 years. New people don't move to Limestone

Bordered by the West Branch Susquehanna River to the north and the Appalachian Mountains to the south, Nippenose is the kind of place where passing trains are the only consistent source of noise, and farms make up most of the land. Still, this Lycoming County township has a deeply rooted community of several hundred people, and residents tend to

Some of the earliest residents of the area today known as Piatt Township were the Duffy family, who sailed from Ireland in the 1770s to open an inn. It became a stop for many stagecoaches traveling through the North Central Pennsylvania frontier, with guests from judges to majors finding respite in the inn’s beds and the tavern’s liquors. More

Like the townships surrounding it, Mifflin features a similar landscape of mountainous ridges, plummeting valleys and small farms. However, residents enjoy quicker access to amenities such as stores, restaurants and schools than in nearby communities. That’s largely thanks to proximity to Salladasburg, a small borough surrounded by Mifflin, and

Most of Lycoming County's Porter Township consists of rolling meadows, farms dotted with red barns and views of the Appalachian Mountains in the near distance. Although very rural, Porter nearly surrounds the Jersey Shore Township, a nearby touchpoint for activity and business. "Porter is just an outlying area of Jersey Shore. It's not considered

The words “Jersey Shore” may conjure mental images of beaches and boardwalks, but Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, is more than 200 miles from the ocean. It’s a common point of confusion in the small borough 15 miles from Williamsport. “We get wayward tours looking for the beach,” says Christina Cooney, president of The Jersey Shore Historical Society.